LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox has strengthened its offer to protect the independence of Sky's loss-making news channel to try to overcome regulatory concerns about Fox's takeover of the parent company.<p>Britain's competition regulator has said Fox's $15.7 billion deal …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Half a million athletes directly competing against each other on a level playing field at the same time. A logistical and practical impossibility, right?<p>Perhaps not.<p>On February 22, in an event known simply as "the Open," an estimated 500,000 CrossFit athletes from all over the world will …

The public address system thundered “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses as two sheepish tennis players emerged from behind a cloud of machine-made smoke, only to be greeted by roughly 50 fans sitting quietly at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.<p>This was no jungle. It was the first day of the …

The sweaty, smelly business of keeping clothes clean at the games.<p>For the three weeks of the Winter Olympics, Pyeongchang, South Korea, is playing host to nearly 3,000 athletes, 15,000 volunteers, 6,000 broadcast personnel, and thousands of officials, coaches, and crew members — and all of their …